OpenTwo archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 14 shown for “John Atherton” — 42 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Black Horse
John Atherton · 1942
Xanthorrhoea sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1992
Rocks and Weeds
John Atherton · 1951
Xanthorrhoea sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1992
Halfordia scleroxyla F. Muell.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 14/9/37
Chenopodium murale L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1955
Alpinia modesta F. Muell. ex K. Schum.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1992
Bromus carinatus Hook. & Arn.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1956
Chenopodium berlandieri var. sinuatum (Murr.) Wahl
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1955
Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Atherton Curtis with Still Life
Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · n.d.
Study for Portrait of Mrs. Atherton Curtis
Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · n.d.
Parmotrema sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 1983
Bulbothrix sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 1983
Solanum seaforthianum Andrews
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/3/54
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 261700 matched · 40 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 05:50 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.